{"id":11011,"date":"2012-02-18T17:27:44","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T01:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=11011"},"modified":"2012-04-30T22:03:02","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T06:03:02","slug":"even-more-winter-orchid-exhibits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/18\/even-more-winter-orchid-exhibits\/","title":{"rendered":"Even More Winter Orchid Exhibits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/23\/more-winter-orchid-exhibits\/\">other winter orchid exhibits<\/a> provide an instant reprieve from the season&#8217;s chill.<\/p>\n<p><strong>February 11 &#8211; March 10<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.courierpress.com\/news\/2012\/feb\/11\/no-headline---ev_orchids\/\" target=\"_blank\">Orchid Escape<\/a> at Mesker Park Zoo &amp; Botanic Garden offers a tropical delight. In Evansville, Indiana, the zoo&#8217;s warm and humid Amazonia exhibit makes a comfortable orchid home. Admission is included with a regular zoo ticket.<\/p>\n<p><strong>February 18 \u2013 April 29<\/strong><br \/>\nThe U.S. Botanic Garden presents <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usbg.gov\/exhibits.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Orchid Mystique: Nature&#8217;s Triumph<\/a> in collaboration with Smithsonian Gardens. To celebrate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalcherryblossomfestival.org\/about\/2012-centennial\/\" target=\"_blank\">the centennial of Washington DC&#8217;s beloved cherry blossoms<\/a>, the exhibit shows orchids in serene Japanese gardens. There are also photo displays of native North American orchids.<\/p>\n<p><strong>March 3 \u2013 April 22<\/strong><br \/>\nNew York Botanical Garden presents a mesmerizing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/exhibitions\/2012\/orchid-show\/\" target=\"_blank\">Orchid Show<\/a>. Vertical orchid gardens transform the conservatory into an exotic, tropical escape. French artist and botanist Patrick Blanc covers structures in orchids, ferns, and exotic plants, reminiscent of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/17\/up-a-tree-2\/\">how epiphytes grow naturally<\/a>. Orchid experts will be on hand for weekend visitors who have orchid care questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These and other winter orchid exhibits provide an instant reprieve from the season&#8217;s chill. February 11 &#8211; March 10 Orchid Escape at Mesker Park Zoo &amp; Botanic Garden offers a tropical delight. In Evansville, Indiana, the zoo&#8217;s warm and humid Amazonia exhibit makes a comfortable orchid home. Admission is included with a regular zoo ticket. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botanical-gardens","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11011"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11862,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11011\/revisions\/11862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}